Untitled by Spiritualized

Anyone? This was definitely one of the best experiences I had all weekend. I expected a cool, slightly psychedelic experience and I was almost moved to tears by the beauty the art project. It was so well executed and so completely surprising.

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Explain what you mean by bad execution, guys. I had no problems with it, I found places where the aleatoric effect combined perfectly with the music to create these really isolatingly beautiful moments.

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A bunch of ppl sitting around in a dark (but not so dark as to be atmospheric) room with fake skylights while a looped song plays? I mean...even the idea is pretty "concept art 101." I had a more intense experiences listening to that album alone in my room than in a big thrown-together black-painted room covered in cheap carpeting.

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Not at all, but did you get to really see all the nuances of the room? Each of the lights represented a different isolated part of the song that came to the foreground when you stood in that patch of light, and different parts of the room had isolated areas where you could hear two or three parts of the song combining to create really wild combinations. Coupled with the fact that it's a chamber designed to absorb loose sound, I thought it was a really wild idea.

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Originally Posted by nathanfairchild

what'd you think of the strokes?

They were rad like usual. It was my third time seeing them. This time Jules was more talkative. I like how he changed up the lyrics and Reptillia. It was really weird seeing Albert not using his guitar and playing the keyboard for games.

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Originally Posted by rjadams90

They were rad like usual. It was my third time seeing them. This time Jules was more talkative. I like how he changed up the lyrics and Reptillia. It was really weird seeing Albert not using his guitar and playing the keyboard for games.

i thought it was way better than their sxsw performance

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I wish I could have made it in there, but I didn't ever want to wait in the lines and never remembered to check it out early. A couple of my friends got lucky on friday, they asked when it opened and it was in a few minutes with like 5 people in front of them in line. So they were some of the first attendees in there.

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Originally Posted by bmack86

Not at all, but did you get to really see all the nuances of the room? Each of the lights represented a different isolated part of the song that came to the foreground when you stood in that patch of light, and different parts of the room had isolated areas where you could hear two or three parts of the song combining to create really wild combinations. Coupled with the fact that it's a chamber designed to absorb loose sound, I thought it was a really wild idea.

That's an interesting perspective. I kind of wished I could have stayed in there longer to see what the point of it was. It would have been nice if some sort of explanation of the thing was mentioned somewhere? Or was there? A chamber designed to absorb loose sounds? Yeah, I did not know that. I think the experience was ruined right off the bat when everyone went in and were all of a sudden just taking pictures of each other in the light. "Like is that it?" sort of thing. Looking into the light was an interesting experience, but hearing the different sounds was something I wouldn't of even thought of trying to do probably mostly because the song itself was low in volume and many people were just talking and giggling from taking silly pictures of each other in the light. My gf thought the point was to simulate space and I'm guessing it's because of the song. I couldn't understand it. Maybe it would have been better if less people were in it, but yeah, that would have takin' forever. I think I was waiting in line for 30-45 min. Actually, I don't know how long we waited, but it felt like an hour to be honest. That anticipation alone has you expecting something big. Hmmm. Ah well.

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Originally Posted by bmack86

And tral!, there's no way pictures or video would adequately capture it, because it's a piece that really requires you being there to experience the effect.

Absolutely, trying to explain it to people afterwords was a waste of time as well. The tranquility of it was just out of this world, I didn't really notice the different parts of the song becoming more clear in the different stages but now that I think about it I remember hearing it differently in certain parts of the room. Did anyone else notice the walls around the lights closing in at certain points? This was honestly one of the best parts of the festival for me, I almost cried when I left it for the third time on Sunday afternoon, and I was sober that time around.

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Originally Posted by Gonshman

1. Poor quality speakers
2. Interior design was haphazard. Duct tape everywhere.
3. Not even looping the full song, and the stems they did use were completely devoted to vocal and droning melodic material like the organ.

1. It was an art exhibit in a nearly soundproof room in the middle of the desert. The song is tranquil. Not sure how loud and booming you were hoping for.
2. They spent most of the first day repairing it.
3. The point of the exhibit was to have synchronous loops, so they could only use the stems that fit the "in rounds" section.